An organization called the Business Roundtable has recently released a document calling for the modernization of the business mission. Apple, Amazon, and other corporate CEOs have signed this document. But it’s a big nothing-burger. That’s why they signed it.
The document tries to say that corporations should consider the impact of other long-term stakeholders such as workers and customers instead of simply maximizing shareholder value. They try to make these out as mutually exclusive and almost opposing goals. Here is a little of what they say: